TO BOGOTA AND BACK BY AIR
TILL NOW ISLAND PEOPLE HAVE DEPENDED ON BOATS
But the day is coming, Colonel Lindbergh believes, when the larger islands of the Caribbean will
make more use of aircraft. A waterfront scene at Port au Prince, Haiti.
Photographs by R. Colorado
HAITI'S NATIONAL PALACE, WHERE THE FLYER WAS OFFICIALLY WELCOMED
This immaculate and architecturally pleasing edifice is set in a park around which the chief
public buildings of Port au Prince are erected (see, also, page 596). When Colonel Lindbergh
visited the palace to be received by the President and his cabinet, he found the palace guard of
six-foot native troops drawn up in his honor,
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